The famous lobby, made grand by its cavernous scale, marble flooring,
Doric columns and multitiered capiz chandeliers, is fully decked with red, gold and white Filipino-inspired trimmings.
Her thesis that Loos was not outrightly hostile towards ornament is linked to the contradictions of a dialectic of modernity and antiquity, which is evident in both his 'House' on the Michaelerplatz (interpreted here as a 'gateway', a 'liminal space' between modern commercial flux and imperial permanence) and his design for the Chicago Tribune skyscraper in the form of a Greek
Doric column. Provocatively, but persuasively, she exempts the eclectic monumental edifices of the Ringstrasse from Loos's critique of its residential facades; we have no doubt come to conflate his 'Potemkin city' with Hermann Broch's critique of hollow Ringstrasse monumentalism.
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Doric column: a channeled column without a base, having as a capital a circular echinus supporting a square abacus, above which comes a plain architrave, a frieze of triglyphs and metopes, and a cornice the corona of which has mutules on its soffit."
Still more jarring is another
Doric column to its immediate left; the column supports nothing, is free-standing, and has no apparent relationship to the structure or anything else in the picture.
Likewise, a student confused by the word "Doric" can stop and view a picture of a
Doric column and read accompanying text.
It is known as the Vantiniano after the original architect, Rodolfo Vantini, and the severely architectural enclosure is dominated by a 60-metre-tall
Doric column in the centre.
The
Doric Column which now stands between the town hall and the Shambles replaced an earlier 1709 built Market Cross in 1768.
The Battle of the Cross refers to fighting that broke out around the
Doric Column on Stockton high street in the 1930s between local fascists and communists.
The entasis of this skyscrape r, like that of a
Doric column, leads to a new kind of propositional beauty, one worked out digitally.
Also by Wilkins was the Nelson Pillar in Dublin (40 metres), the
Doric column which afforded fine views of the Georgian city until it was blown up by the IRA in 1966.
Question one: Where in Stockton would you find a
Doric column dating back to 1768?
Today a single sixth-century
Doric column remains from an ancient temple dedicated to Apollo.
* Restoring historic landscape features such as the
Doric column, and
Originally a residential square, it is now dominated by William Young's (1843-1900) magnificent City Chambers and in the centre is an 80ft
Doric column on a pedestal, supporting not Nelson bur the creator of the Romantic national myth of Scotland, the novelist Walter Scott.
